There is officially no longer a president or a transitional prime minister in Mali.
These two senior state officials resigned Wednesday, May 26, two days after their arrest by the military in what amounts to a second coup in nine months, said a collaborator of the strongman. of power and a member of an international mission.
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President Bah Ndaw and his Prime Minister Moctar Ouane "have resigned before the arbitrator", the international mediation mission currently in Mali, declared Baba Cissé, special adviser to Colonel Assimi Goïta.
"Negotiations are underway for their release and the formation of a new government," he added.
Arrest
A member of the international delegation confirmed, on condition of anonymity, to another AFP correspondent that the transitional president had resigned.
This delegation went to the Kati military camp on Wednesday morning, about fifteen kilometers from Bamako, to meet the two leaders who have been held there since their arrest.
Colonel Goïta said on Tuesday that he had dismissed the two men by accusing them of having formed a new government without consulting him while he is the vice-president in charge of security issues, a key attribution in a country taken by the torment of jihadist propagation and violence of all kinds.
With AFP
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